Tour of Britain

Can't get enough of your love baby..

barry white...sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh you were not suppose to tell anyone im still alive and living with elvis. Rapsac... i just worked out your user name...genius.

Now you know why I get you confused with Murder.....eh you great love walrus.

As Ice Cube once put it " today was a good day".
That good infact after a look at metcheck I think I might ride to Newbury tomorrow to see the finish there.

Nice to meet you Ant, n RPM Wiggins wasn't racing; it was just his medal procession following the pelaton very closely.

WTP

Fucking mutants.. I thought those guys from X-Men were sorting you lot out?

Caspar spelt my name wrong, but I came fourth.
Still a long way from the forums above average though.

Em and Seb scared the bejeebus out of the nodders we were standing next to whilst watching the race.
Loud, funny-looking with strange bicycles.
My kid liked them though.
:)

some of my best ones and a link to the rest.
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not as sunny as the last time they raced in central london then...

Sun? Photoshop ;)

**++++++++++++++SPOLIER+++++++++++++++++++++

go away if you don't want to know today's results...**

Stage 3: Results just in

    1st Emilien Berges, Agritubel

2nd Geoffrey Lequarte, Agritubel
3rd Gabriele Bosisio, LPR Brakes - Ballan
4th Daniel Martin, Garmin - Chipotle
5th Benny de Schrooder, An Post M. Donnelly
6th Ian Stannard, Great Britain

will be taking some photos from the finish line in newcastle today, ill put them up later

I was watching this on ITV4 last night, maybe not paying as much attention to running order as they approached the finish, I was sure a Rock rider has escaped and was in the lead, assured of a win....but young Noggins from Norway one it! Did I doze off or was the coverage just misleading?! Anyone else bothering to watch?

Yes, I was watching it too (been watching all week). The coverage is absolutely rubbish on itv4 - totally misleading camera work, not enough info on GC standings, gaps between bunches etc.

They definitely missed out the bit where the Norwegian Columbia rider pulled Pena back in, just before the end. I was really impressed with the escape he made, having just pretended (possibly) to be knackered. Was gutted that it didn't work out for him.

It's possible that there just aren't enough camera bikes / helicopters to capture all this, but it still could have been edited better so that we knew what was going on. it seemed as if the commentators had no idea either. If there is no effort to make a cohesive program, they might as just well show it live rather than edit it down to a highlights show.

Ah well, I will continue to watch...

thanks Mashton. I thought I might have had a 'funny' turn.
As you say, piss poor by any standards, even if theyre short on cameras its no excuse for the presenters not explaining the outcome clearly. Still, its better than no covergae at all I suppose.
Who'd have thought a few years ago that we'd be able to catch an hour of each ToB stage (and the ToI) but not see any international world football qualifying matches!!

ToB coverage is on now ITV4..

I've been looking forward to this!

Catch up on stage one here: http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=101530

Next weekend it comes to London on the same Embankment route as last year, so I'm sure it'll be a good opportunity to watch such heroes as Russell Downing and Wiggo!

on itv4 now

I was thinking at the track day we should have some sort of forum outing for when the tour passes through london
time for a list?

1. Gingers
   

1. Gingers
   
2. Blacks
   
3. Girls
   
4. Homos
   
   

See, we are a joined up community

Bit of a weird place to have a stage start, but what do I know? Maybe some of them wanted to get married in Gretna or something.

Photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/albie_clark/sets/72157622242153551/

There don't seem to be any links for Sunday's or yesterday's stage yet. Has anyone found them?

look out for RPM and Rapsac Rollapaluzaering on the finshline at Blackpool today.....

Sweet. I'm in. When's it come though? I caught yesterday's stage on ITV4 had forgotten it had started. Durrr.

@illy, they seem to come up a day after they're shown in the ITV4 webside. Probs up now. Highlights are at 7pm I think.